I’m posting another dessert recipe today. This was our dessert tonight and I’m posting the recipe right away, because the whole apartment still smells like Christmas…

To make this apple puff pastry dessert with white wine sauce, you’ll need: 4 (bigger) apples, 3 cinnamon sticks, 2 vanilla beans, 2 cups of brown sugar, a bottle of white wine (I recommend using dry white wine), 2 puff pastry sheets, 3 tablespoons of apricot jam and a tablespoon of butter (for the dish).

Here’s what you have to do:  Peel and remove the cores from the apples, then cut them into 8 slices. Place the apples in a pot and cover with wine. Take the vanilla beans and split in half, lengthwise. Using a knife, scrap out the vanilla seeds and then add the seeds and vanilla beans to the wine. Add the cinnamon sticks and sugar and boil for about 15 to 20 minutes. Take a baking dish and grease it with butter. Place one sheet of puff pastry in the bottom of the dish. Then remove the apples (with a skimmer) from the wine mixture. Cover the pastry in the bottom of the dish with apples and top with the other sheet of puff pastry. Place it in a preheated oven (200 degrees C / 390 degrees F) for about 25 minutes. Meanwhile, strain the half of the remaining wine mixture into a small saucepan, bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 10 minutes. Add apricot jam, stir and simmer a little more (for about 5 minutes).

Serve the apple puff pastry dessert (warm) with this sweet wine sauce! And serving all this with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, sounds even better to me. …like Christmas, I tell you.